Friday, February 29, 2008

Mya - Black Sizzle


Mya means business - she is quite possessive and vocal about anyone approaching her nest! She is mated to Cassius. UpDate!!! we have babies!!!! I gave her Ms Banty's brood and she now has
12 peeps to care for. I have several of her chicks by Cassius. Update 5/4/2008 - I mated her with my young showgirl roo, Adam, and have 6+ eggs in the bator due out around 5/20/2008 - my birthday!!!!!! I can't wait!!!!

Ms. Banty - Old English Game


She stood in line and finally gave up and made her own nest and is now setting. She will probably be off mid March. Her neighbor, Mya, kept switching nests. Both are new setting to me, so hope they hang in there. She is currently mated to Cassius. UPDATE!!!! 3/12/08 she has four peeps!!!!!! She is nesting next to Mya.....maybe more peeps due!!! Next photo is of 5 silver sebright chicks that I put under her (I gave her chicks to Mya) that I had bought at TSC.

Showgirls

The big roo has a band NC6684 - metal - small one is a very young roo. Now I need a couple of hens for them.

Showgirls

Here is a better close up photo.

Showgirl

This roo is young - I got both of them in Sept 2007. He is looking for a girlfriend!

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Henrietta - my sizzle


"I cannot understand what happened to my perm! I was supposed to have lot's of curls and look at me!!!" She is molting now.

This is my sweet Henrietta - such a sweet disposition. Hope to have some chicks out of her and her mate a white Jap. I have probably a dozen eggs from them in the large bator. This is her mate below. I believe she is a sizzle - silkie-frizzle cross - see the top knot? I have several chicks from her and the white jap - She is now in the pen with Cassius. Want to get some babies out of them.

Friday, February 8, 2008

Please meet, Cassius, my frizzeled Roo. I got him quite by accident at a poultry auction. I had never seen a bantam frizzel and there he was with three more just like him. So, home he came. His companions were Henrietta, a white frizzel hen, and Mya, a black frizzel hen, and this little blue and white frizzel something. I thought it was a hen, but I later learned it was a Roo.

He became Sugar Ray. Now the reason for the boxer names is that they are "fiesty" they will "flog" you if you mess with their hens. And Cassius, dances for his hens hunting food and scratching. So, I named him after Cassius Clay. They don't have spurs and they have about 5 toes. I wonder is this normal? They are adorable little balls of feathers.